Bristol City Council is still weathering the storm it brought down upon itself for not marking St George’s Day this year, having argued that the city is ‘too multicultural’ for such an event. Lack of interest might have been a plausible excuse, but not that all cultures are valued except one. Others do things differently. ContinueContinue reading “A Tale of Two Cities”
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History is Sunk
“My Lords, a nation gets awarded the character that it deserves. By neglecting to promote some aspect of this character, that aspect becomes increasingly insignificant within the image which other nations regard as our worth. And this might also hold true for the way future generations of our own nation come to regard what weContinueContinue reading “History is Sunk”
London Pride
Here is why the power of London, and the Britain it represents, must end. For all our sakes.It’s time for regionalism, the only constitutional change that will turn England the right way up.
Independence for Europe?
“No European can be a complete exile in any part of Europe.” Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace (1796)It was a curious coincidence (or was it?) that on the same day that David Cameron dressed up as success what was clearly failure, the USA announced a quadrupling of its defence spending in Europe. It’sContinueContinue reading “Independence for Europe?”
Exceeding Expectations
We’ve always enjoyed watching Mebyon Kernow’s progress and learning from what they get right, or very occasionally wrong. Our association dates back to the 70s, when the founding generation of MK members was still at the helm. It was the era of grainy, photocopied leaflets and duplicated magazines, produced in a political climate that isContinueContinue reading “Exceeding Expectations”
Gearing Up
Surveyoris the magazine for highways and transport professionals. This month’s issue is headlined ‘Return of the Regions’ and opens to reveal an editorial by Dominic Browne, and more besides. The editorial starts as follows:“In January of this year the Department for Transport (DfT) launched a small (by government standards) pilot competition for local authorities toContinueContinue reading “Gearing Up”
Valuing Europe
As tens of thousands flock in renewed hope to join the Labour Party, much of the last Shadow Cabinet has walked off in disgust at the thought of actually having to believe in something. Yes, British politics is about to get much more interesting. Jeremy Corbyn though is no friend of Wessex. So long asContinueContinue reading “Valuing Europe”
Pop Goes the Weasel
“Governments with money centralise and claim the credit. Governments without cash decentralise and spread the blame. Those are not the views of a hardened media cynic. They are what I was told by one of the Tories’ top policy wonks before the election.”Nick Robinson, BBC Political Editor, December 2010Surprised? Why? The masters of the universeContinueContinue reading “Pop Goes the Weasel”
That Artful London
After the 2008 financial crash, the investment bank Goldman Sachs acquired an unforgettable description, as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”. England has been struggling with its own undying vampire squid for centuries, in the form of London’s political, economicContinueContinue reading “That Artful London”
Whose Poet?
“’William Barnes, you say? What possible relevance could he have today?’ ‘Well, I suppose people who like Dorset might be interested, or some local historian or Wessex regionalist, but as for me…’. So goes the reasoning of many. It is false reasoning…”Fr Andrew Phillips (2003), in the foreword to a reprint of Barnes’ Views ofContinueContinue reading “Whose Poet?”
Wessex Regionalists 